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The author on getting hooked on Flann O'Brien, reassessing Kingsley Amis, and why his grandfather was outraged by Watership Down ...

An exuberant, inspiring memoir from the New Yorker writer and author of The Orchid Thief ...

Author whose Shopaholic series of romcom novels were global bestsellers and adapted into a Hollywood film ...

The historian is set to lead a 'stellar' 2026 panel featuring the Pulp frontman and other acclaimed writers, as the search begins for next year's standout work of fiction ...

As Foyles names her memoir its book of the year, here's a guide to the Booker prize winner's wide-ranging oeuvre of fiction and nonfiction ...

This Trinidadian family saga blurs the line between real and imagined to create a multilayered history of an island and its people ...

This sharp, bleak debut satirises the current cultural moment through the life and loves of a cynical young writer ...

The author of The Power looks to the past for lessons in surviving an era of seismic technological change ...

Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some brilliant new paperbacks, from a festive mystery to a kaleidoscopic ode to the animal kingdom ...

The unlikely story of an English girl catapulted to French fame - and a relationship with Serge Gainsbourg that resembled a piece of deranged performance art ...